Read the letter the U.S. attorney’s office sent alerting Judge William Alsup to an explosive allegations a former Uber employee had passed to an in-house Uber attorney. The letter was unsealed and posted publicly Wednesday in the Waymo v. Uber docket.

In recent years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has prioritized the regulation, monitoring, and enforcement of cybersecurity activities. On Sept, 25, the SEC reinforced its commitment to cybersecurity when the Enforcement Division announced the formation of a “Cyber Unit” that will target cyber-related misconduct affecting the securities markets.

Recent news and awards indicate law firms are increasing their investments in innovation. Stories of recently launched innovation committees, R&D teams and idea labs routinely grace the pages of industry publications. Yet despite these investments, the trajectory of the industry as a whole seems to have remained largely unchanged. Why are innovation efforts by larger law firms failing to make a meaningful impact?

Hundreds of cases stemming from a massive hack of Atlanta-based Equifax that compromised the personal and financial data of more than 145 million people, will be consolidated in federal court in Atlanta and presided over by the district's chief judge.

Uber is in the hot seat for its use of messaging apps such as Wickr with self-destruct features. But legal experts say evidence rules don't preclude such tools, and Wickr's CEO warns against "stigmatizing" information security.

“Be careful to not make cyber sexy and strange and interesting,” one in-house lawyer said at ALM's cyberSecure conference. “You want to do that to get into the room, but the minute you get in the room, this is just like any other risk that is facing our company.”

“We can develop all the policies in the world,” said the company's deputy general counsel of data and privacy, “but at the end of the day, if we’re not doing road shows with all these teams and identifying exactly what they should be looking for, no one’s going to read this stuff.”

All lawyer jokes aside, artificial intelligence (AI) finally is beginning to make inroads in the legal industry. But how deeply will we feel its presence? And which practice areas will it benefit the most?

In a new podcast, Law.com talks with the lead attorney arguing against the government in Carpenter v. U.S., a case set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that tests the limits of privacy when it comes to cellular location data.

When video game developers Epic Games sued two individuals for allegedly providing code that allowed other gamers to cheat their way through one of their games, the company probably didn't know that one of those individuals was a minor. That minor is getting a fairly high-powered defense from an unlikely source: His mother.

Uber Technologies Inc.'s admission Tuesday that it waited a year to disclose a massive data breach could put the company in the crosshairs of a California law that mandates prompt notification—both to the public and to state regulators—of significant cyberattacks.

"Using Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice" will help students build familiarity in using AI-based research platforms, while "Legal Tech Startup Skills" will guide students through launching their own companies.

While acknowledging the possible medical and financial benefits of a pill embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors if and when patients take their prescribed medication, health care and data privacy lawyers warned about consent and data security issues associated with the new technology.

The security industry all too often sells the next shiny object touted as the Holy Grail of security that protects against all cyber threats. And the following year, the next best thing hits the market and becomes the grail until proven fallible.

In this podcast, Michael Carter explains the basis for the tort of 'passing off' and outlines the circumstances in which it can be used alongside, or in place of, trademark rights to protect 'goodwill' in a business.

The threat of cyberattack looms large for law firms. In 2016, the year of the breach," a seemingly endless barrage of law firm security incidents were front and center in industry news and the pace hasn t slowed.